Everywhere I live the building works seem to go after me. Recently I've seen some constructions make big sheets that cover the building while it's being worked on. something like this https://m.indiamart.com/proddetail/construction-covers-1238101130.html
Would be very nice thing to have to place as placeholders for buildings to come, or even to have some building under construction at the start of the game and then be finished later on.